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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set Monitoring Integration

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets help you construct and manage a group of load-balanced VMs. The number of VM instances can be increased or decreased automatically in response to demand or on a predefined schedule. These VM scale sets give your applications high availability while allowing you to manage, configure, and upgrade a large number of VMs from a single location.

You can now monitor your VM scale sets with precise metrics, define thresholds, automate tasks, and stay on top of outages with Site24x7's integration.

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Setup and configuration

You can add Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets while adding a new monitor or you can add it to an existing Azure monitor. Follow these steps to add the service.

Supported metrics

The following metrics are collected:

Metric name Description Statistic Unit

CPU Credits Consumed

The total number of credits consumed by the VM. Only available on B-series burstable VMs

Average

Count

CPU Credits Remaining

The total number of credits available to burst. Only available on B-series burstable VMs

Average

Count

Disk Read Bytes

Bytes read from the disk during the monitoring period

Total

Bytes

Disk Read Operations/Sec

Disk input operations per second (IOPS)

Average

Count per second

Disk Write Bytes

Bytes written to the disk during the monitoring period

Total

Bytes

Disk Write Operations/Sec

The number of disk write IOPS

Average

Count per second

Inbound Flows

The number of current flows in the inbound direction (the traffic going into the VM)

Average

Count

Network In

The number of billable bytes received on all network interfaces by the VM(s)

Total

Bytes

Network Out

The number of outbound billable bytes on all network interfaces by the VMs (deprecated)

Total

Bytes

OS Disk Queue Depth

The depth or the length of the OS disk queue

Average

 Count

OS Disk Read Bytes/sec

Bytes read from a single disk during the monitoring period for an OS disk 

Average

Count per second

OS Disk Read Operations/Sec

Read IOPS from a single disk during the monitoring period for an OS disk

Average

Count per second

OS Disk Write Bytes/sec

Bytes written to a single disk during the monitoring period for an OS disk

Average

Count per second

OS Disk Write Operations/Sec

Write IOPS from a single disk during the monitoring period for an OS disk

Average

Count per second

Outbound Flows

The number of current outbound flows (the traffic going out of the VM)

Average

Count

Data Disk Queue Depth

The depth or the length of the data disk queue

Average

Count

Data Disk Read Bytes/sec

Bytes read from a single disk during the monitoring period

Average

Count per second

Data Disk Read Operations/Sec

Read IOPS from a single disk during the monitoring period

Average

Count per second

Data Disk Write Bytes/sec

Bytes written to a single disk during the monitoring period

Average

Count per second

Data Disk Write Operations/Sec

Write IOPS from a single disk during the monitoring period

Average

Count per second

Percentage CPU

The percentage of allocated compute units that are currently in use by the VM(s)

Average

Percentage

Threshold configuration

Global configuration

  1. Go to the Admin section in the left navigation pane.
  2. Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and choose the Threshold and Availability (+) tab from the drop-down menu. Click Add Threshold Profile from the top-right corner.
  3. Set the monitor type as Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Now you can set the threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.

Monitor-level configuration

  1. Go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets from the drop-down menu.
  2. Choose a resource for which you would like to set a threshold, then click the hamburger icon . Select Edit, which will direct you to the Edit Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets Monitor page.
  3. You can set the threshold values for the metrics by selecting Threshold and Availability. You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

IT Automation

Site24x7 offers a set of exclusive IT Automation tools to auto-resolve performance degradation issues. These tools react to events proactively rather than waiting for manual intervention.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor

Configuration Rules

With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can set parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors.

How to add a Configuration Rule

Related links:

How to add an Azure monitor.
How to integrate an Azure App Service monitor.
How to integrate Azure Virtual Machine monitor.
How to configure IT Automations for a monitor.
How to add a Configuration Rule.

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